Ken Livingstone actually said a terrorist could break in and pose as a gardener and plant a bomb.' The land was secured for growing in 1900, when Major Arthur Villiers bequeathed it for use in perpetuity by east end families; his resolve was strengthened when he saw the appalling deprivations suffered during the Great War.
There are still spots of appalling misery and deprivation, but everyone says things are changing, that the worst is over, that they have survived.
Exposure by Mal Peet is a sensational retelling of the Othello story, set in a context of Brazilian football and pop celebrity, against a background of appalling child poverty and deprivation.
The existence of poverty, social deprivation, and appalling conditions of work are quite simply incompatible with these ideals.
"It's an immensely powerful story about appalling levels of poverty and deprivation and how people transcend it, it's about redemption and revenge and the extraordinary relationship between Jean Valjean and a little girl he brings up".
For a variety of complex reasons lack of upkeep, insufficient vetting of new tenants, endemic long-term economic decline the high-rises became a byword for deprivation, poverty, and appalling social conditions.
Poverty is human deprivation, poor nutrition, poor health, appalling housing, squandered talents, and broken dreams.
This would be comforting, except that damning evidence, including testimony from released detainees and admissions from some officials, suggests that many endured appalling crowding in custody, ritual humiliation, starvation, sleep deprivation, vicious beatings and worse.
It's appalling — appalling.
